I love this question. As a tech founder of a bootstrapped SAAS company, let me tell you what a typical day looks like (other than being on HN at times of course

I love this question. As a tech founder of a bootstrapped SAAS company, let me tell you what a typical day looks like (other than being on HN at times of course :)): - Sales Calls - Marketing dicsussions (content/blogs/webinars/podcasts/ads/partnerships/affiliates) - Team building/hiring and Firing (can you deal with firings ?). - Team Management - Customer Support/Talking to customers - Conflict resolution (with customers or even internal team) - Fire fight. Something goes wrong. I was on vacation in November 2021 and literally that week, we had a major production incident even though this major incident didn't happen for last 24 months. I was up until 6 AM working with the team to fix it. Then at 9 AM, I went on a call with the customer and had to deal with that. This was major. Minor stuff happens a lot more than you would think. - Sales (did I say it already) - Marketing (did I say it already) - Legal/Paperwork/HR - Some tech stuff/coding/servers/devops - When shit hits the fan, your ass is on the line ultimately. Handle that. - Work crazy hours (to build a real business, you have to work hard and long at least first few years. 4 hour work week stuff is bullshit) - Be willing to fail. Lot of people cannot get out of their comfort zones. They have fear of failure. That won't work if you want to run a business. So if you want to start your own company, you better be ready for all of this. In the early days, you will be involved in all of the things listed above. Working a nice six figure tech job in a big tech is easy compared to what you have to do to be your own boss. I bet most people don't want to do majority of the things I listed above. So the point is that you don't just start a company because you can code. You start a company because well, you want to build a business and nothing else. I did it because I want to build a business. I know it is hell and been there for 7 years now but I wouldn't trade this hell for a comfortable paycheck at a company. Just not wired that way. Most people however are wired to be comfortable and in tech jobs, the money is really really good to do anything else unless you have that "itch".